Chicago Hosts Medal of Honor Recipients
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Channel: Voice of America · 2009 · People & Blogs
Congress established the Medal of Honor, the highest honor awarded for bravery in the U.S. armed forces, in 1862. Since then, presidents have awarded 3,448 Medals of Honor. Only 95 recipients are still alive, most of them veterans of World War II or the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. Each year many of the medal recipients who are still alive gather for a meeting in their honor. VOA's Kane Farabaugh reports from this year's Medal of Honor convention in Chicago, where the small group of living medal-holders offered tributes to the most recent recipient.
